Even if you have been naughty and didn't play any games this year - the entire team at Nival Interactive wishes you a Joyous Holiday Season and a Very Happy New Year! :))

New screenshots for Blitzkrieg II operations have been delivered to the HQ. Everybody proceed to the operations room.

Biggest Surprise 2004, one of the year's freshest and most unexpected titles! That's what IGN.com says about our "Silent Storm" bestseller in its annual awarding session. Read the full story

88 %! - the score Greg Gibson from GamingIllustrated.com gives to Blitzkrieg: Rolling Thunder. Look what he says: The attention to detail in the construction of the game is evident in almost every aspect of the game. This game certainly should be on every gamers short list for RTS WWII games. Read the full review

"Blitzkrieg II" High Command has prepared graphic materials needed to create your fan-site of choice. To receive the fan-site kit, please address the HQ, section "Files"

Hurray, today is our 8th birthday! Our team traces its history back to year 1996 and has really enjoyed creating highly successful game titles ever since. We have developed 8 remarkable games in 8 years and have grown up to 4 project teams with a staff of over 120 dedicated people, preparing 4 new perfect games at this very moment. In our turn, we'd like to thank all gamers who've played and enjoyed our games during all these years, since your appreciation and acknowledgement is the best reward a developer can get. Thank you, friends!

Today we have updated "Sentinels" Community section with lots of fan-screenshots, collected from our game forums. The screenshots are divided into three groups - Brutal, Funny and Beautiful

Monach, one of the Sentinels' most active operatives, has once again delighted us with excellent fan-wallpapers, very nice and creative

Gentlemen, Blitzkrieg II recon plane has taken a large picture of our in-shore positions. Intelligence reports that Japs are cranking up and will definitely try to show us back to the ocean. Study the picture, arrange minefields, prepare your men. This is gonna be a hot one tropical night.

For Thou, mighty Lord of Ether! Take a look at our virtual Etherlords II page, made by the best masters of art in Ether planes. We’re sure it will bring pleasure to your eyesight and joy to your heart

New section “Press” at our Blitzkrieg II site will let you have a comfortable access to all materials on Blitzkrieg II, published both in on-line and off-line editions. We open this section with the interview on Blitzkrieg II for Filefront.com, where Project leader George Ossipov talks on different issues of Blitzkrieg II development. The original article is backed-up with some exclusive screen shots that you can see here

Plug-in for Maya 6 has been added to the Files section. The plug-in lets the modder community export 3D models to Silent Storm and Silent Storm: Sentinels. Click me to proceed

New wallpapers in our Community section! Sentinels girls will guard your desktop from any unexpected invasions. The flash of lightning with Sentinels and Thor’s soldiers on the opposite sides of the second wallpaper clearly visualizes the name – and the cause – of Silent Storm: Sentinels.

S2/S3 DevChat last Thursday was great, thanks to StrategyCore and Chatspike IRC server staff. The chat was a real pleasure to us and we are grateful to our fans and gamers for your concern regarding the Silent Storm series and our future projects. The chat log transcript awaits you here. StrategyCore TBS web-resource itself is to be opened soon.

Brother Sentinels! Nival Interactive and JooWooD have issued the patch 1.1 for the English and German versions of Silent Storm: Sentinels. No more talking, download it and into the action!

S2/S3 DevChat This Thursday! An official chat dedicated to Silent Storm and Silent Storm: Sentinels will be held on October 21, 1500 GMT. StrategyCore - the soon to be opened strategy (TBS) games portal - will interview both Nival and JoWood representatives on the future prospects, development and gameplay issues of Silent Storm series. Find more details about the chat here

As of today, all recruits selected for the Blitzkrieg II Closed Beta received appropriate notifications. Nival HQ thanks all those who volunteered. If you have not received the notification – don’t despair! Your expertise may still be needed in the second stage of the operation.

"Sentinels" Community section updated! New classy wallpaper from Monach, one of the most active Silent Storm gamers here in Russia.

Attention to all recruits! Nival HQ announced today that the enlistment for the Blitzkrieg Closed Beta Test is over. Recruits selected for the Test will get notification with further instructions no later than October 18. Those who do not receive the notification will be accepted to Reserve Corps and might get a chance to act in further Beta operations coming right after the first phase. We thank all the officers and soldiers applied for the Test, stay vigilant! Dismissed.

New Blitzkrieg fan-sites from German community! At BK-maps.deyou can find many new maps both for singleplayer and multiplayer modes as well as various information on Blitzkrieg and other games of its family. Spreñhen Sie Deutsch? Then visit Blitzkrieg-bunker.de. This German-speaking site is devoted to “all the info and the news on Blitzkrieg I and II” and contains many interesting materials.

CyberWolf and Monach - active members of Russian gaming community - have created several good-looking desktop wallpapers using the screenshots from Silent Storm: Sentinels. Please, find the wallpapers in our "Community" section.

New Blitzkrieg II wallpaper depicting the mighty "Erebus" will certainly look Great on your desktop. For better effect use it along with a couple of sample music tracks from Blitzkrieg II! Find the wallpaper and the tracks here in our Files section.

Mega-wow-screenshot has been delivered to the Sentinels headquarters several minutes ago. It’s a wide-screen image demonstrating a complete panorama of the Sentinels’ covert operation. Recommended to everybody who has got sense for detail, passion for cinema, or devotion to the cause of Sentinels!

Commander, new Blitkrieg II wallpaper has come from the frontlines. Our daring sniper girls had taken a picture of themselves on the prowl. We recommend sticking it on your desktop in order to support high fighting spirit of your fellow warriors.

ActionTrip.com decorates Sentinels with Editor’s Choice and 90 % Excellent! Look what the review author ("Nikerym") says: “All my compliments go to Nival Interactive for this marvelous job, and I hope they continue to make games that are this fun and immersive”. Read the full review

Attention to all commanding officers! Intelligence spotted a new Blitzkrieg fan-site. BK Warfare contains mod recourses for Blitzkrieg and may be of great help for those willing to set on new combat missions or to play Burning Horizon in multiplayer mode

Thor's Hammer rises! Nival operatives has spotted the Gold Edition of Silent Storm, including the long awaited Silent Storm: Sentinels expansion at UK Amazon recently, which is surely a part of the Hammer's underhand plotting. So, wait no more! Join Sentinels today to make sure Hammer has never existed. Grab your copy here

We Want You! Volunteer for Blitzkrieg II Closed Beta Test! Read details in our press-release

Nival Interactive announces the Blitzkrieg II site open! Get the freshest reports from the developer's front-line, see the photo coverage of the battles around the globe, get ready for the up-coming War!

The screenshots of Rolling Thunder, the second official expansion to Blitzkrieg from CDV Entertainment are now available at the game web section at Blitzkrieg.de site. Click here and take a look.

Game Daily has posted its review on Burning Horizon. The author Mike Reznick gives the game the rate of 4 out of 5 saying: "Blitkrieg: Burning Horizon was a surprising breath of fresh air in a generally overtired genre. The ability to play as the Axis along with challenging missions and an intuitive control system made this game a great pleasure to play." Read more.

It’s large, it’s informative and it’s back online! The premiere English-language Silent Storm fan-site - S2HQ has found new hosting and is with us again. Hurray! Jump to S2HQ

Fan-site Blitzkriegmultiplayer has posted a multiplayer mod for Blitzkrieg. The mod brings changes into combat and moving characteristics of some units, and also adds new units to the game. There is a caution on the page that says: “Warning! This Mod is for real strategist, Not for the arcadish Gamer!” If this notice makes the mod even more desirable for you, then don’t hesitate – click here to take up the challenge!

Two more reviews on Burning Horizon were posted on the Net. Jim Richmond gave a detailed 2-page-long overview of the game on Adrenaline Vault - his conclusion is “Blitzkrieg: Burning Horizon is an engaging and challenging addition to the front lines of real-time strategy”. Reviewer Alastair Ingason for Video Games Life has not skipped a single detail as well, talking on “an interesting story”, ”visual upgrades, new units to cherish, more maps to create craters on”, and AI that “has not escaped the update”. His final verdict is also very convincing: “All these features help build a very competent and well structured strategy title, which is a must for strategy purists”.

RPG Vault has posted the interview with Nival’s CEO Serge Orlovsky, where he talks about Nival Interactive, its history and its games, and shares some of his thoughts on the industry. To have an insider look at our history and the games we make, please follow the link

Upon its release Burning Horizon has received high recognition from gaming press, and now it is bringing real strategy joy to the fans of the genre around the globe. Recently Burning Horizon has reached top ten best-selling games in Great Britain: In the UK it entered the charts at number 14. However, if you weed out the non-game titles, it reaches an actual chart position of number 10!

New review on Burning Horizon, the stand-alone expansion to Blitzkrieg from CDV and Nival, has been posted on eToyChest. Its author Matt Cozen gives quite a detailed analysis on the new elements of the game, concluding “Much like its antecedent, Burning Horizon is a very well done and detailed strategy game that fans of the genre will enjoy..“. The rate of 80% backs up this verdict.

Blitzkrieg ESA clan (European State Army) celebrates its 1st year anniversary and it comes as the perfect news and a great rejoicing for us here in Nival. Our best congratulations, friends! We wish you ultimate success on the battlefields of Blitzkrieg! Hurray

Your weapon is what leads to your success but it also can be the reason of your failure, if you don’t know it well. You need to know your weapon the same you know your best friend, learn all its advantages and drawbacks, so that you can trust it and rely on it the same you trust and rely on your friend. For you, Sentinels, we are opening new section - Weapons with characteristics of all the new weaponry found in the game.

The Thor’s soldiers have attacked the base of the Sentinels under favour of the darkness. Caught by surprise, the Sentinels yet demonstrated the best of their skills to kick away the gate-crashers. It was a hot battle, as you can see it for yourself in our screenshots section.

If you are a Sentinel in heart, if you want to see more people fighting with you against Thor’s Hammer, if you desire the noble case of Sentinels be spread across the Earth – in short, if you want to create a Sentinels fan-site, it is much easier to do now! We have prepared a Fan Site Kit, where you can find all graphic materials for your site – and it’s in our Files section, just a click away!

The Sentinels section has been updated with new art materials. Some more weaponry and items in the Sketches section. Screenshots are also updated with a new gallery, representing the new desert locations mainly.

JoWood Productions, Nival Interactive’s publisher in Europe has posted the English demo of Silent Storm: Sentinels – our soon to be released expansion to the award-winning tactics game Silent Storm! In as much as three demo missions your courage and skills will be tested. You’ll be given a mission to retrieve Penemunde archives, save your brother Sentinel and eliminate the traitor. Moreover, action-packed Sentinels trailer will wait for you beside the demo. Wait no further – into the fight!

New section has opened up on the Sentinels web-page. Now you don’t need to search through the NET – our interviews are gathered in the “Press” section for your convenience. Argh… Can’t wait. Bring it on!!

The Sentinels section has been updated with more concepts of in-game weaponry and items. Wallpaper section will meet you with a wicked red-eyed renegade sniper ready to guard your desktop from parents and inquisitive co-workers.

“Blitzkrieg: Burning Horizon is the ideal expansion pack. It amplifies the core concepts of the original game and ramps up both the AI and the difficulty without straying from the tactics-first philosophy that allows this series to stand apart from the RTS crowd,” – says Brett Todd in his Burning Horizon review on GameSpot. To find out more you can spot the full review here

G4techTV has posted their review on Silent Storm. “Silent Storm is well worth a look. It's accessible, fun, and technically impressive, making it one of the better strategy games we've played in quite some time” – says its author Matt Keil, rating the game with 4 out of 5. Read full review

Coinciding with the 60th Anniversary of D-DAY, leading European publisher CDV Software Entertainment release Blitzkrieg: Burning Horizon, a full stand alone expansion to Blitzkrieg. The release date for North America is June 8th. Burning Horizon was developed by CDV with assistance of Nival Interactive. The expansion offers a huge 18-missions-campaign around General Rommel, giving you the opportunity to play famous battles like Ardennes, Tripolis, Tobruk, El Alamein, Sicily and, of course, Normandy. The game has not failed to impress journalists, prior to its June 4th launch:

PC ZONE - "It’s better than Sudden Strike – which is no mean feat"
PC FORMAT - "Very substantial strategy"
PC EXTREME - "you can’t fault the strategy element here”
To find more details on the game please click here.

Sentinels web-page has acquired a new section - “Sketches”, where you will find original game concepts. Today there are some sketches of characters, weaponry and other items, both in pencil and in color. Click here to jump there.

!!!!Our Sentinels section has been updated with new screenshots and character renders. Check it out. Stay tuned, even more to come.

One of the largest Blitzkrieg clans - ESA (European State Army) has posted an interview with Nival on Blitzkrieg II. Our interviewer was Major – renowned ESAclan warchief and devoted Blitzkrieg gamer himself. George Ossipov, Blitzkrieg II Project Leader and Nival Community Managers have supplied him with the latest intel on what’s what with the future game.

Refresh your computer desktop this spring! We prepared new cool Sentinels wallpapers. An armed and deadly scout stalking his pray and enemy soldiers in your snipe sight. Make your final selection in the Files section.

Don’t miss out the Etherplanes.net – this site has some fresh interesting materials. Map Editor Reference will help those Lords who are willing to create their own Ether planes (or Ether forests). For you, Warrior, there is a replays database that will help you to learn from great Warlords of the already played battles or share your experience with youngsters by sending in your replay. The site also has prepared a nice surprise for French-speaking Lords of Ether who now can read the site’s materials in their native language. And there is much more of interest at Etheplanes. Nival recommends.

Dear friends! It was our fathers and grandfathers who united, fought and spilt their blood close together to make this world better. And we will be forever grateful for that! Happy Victory Day to all from Nival team! Hurray!

S2HQ, the premier English language Silent Storm fansite has posted the First Look Preview on the Silent Storm: Sentinels Demo. As the demo shows almost all new features and innovations, it gives quite a clear vision of the game itself. The author analyses all new features and says: “The game seems to be an excellent addition to any strategy gamers collection. In fact, gameplayers from any genre will appreciate the combination of addictive gameplay and fantastic details that this game offers.” Check out the complete preview.

We are glad to announce that the official section on the Silent Storm: Sentinels has opened up. If you are a Sentinel in heart and strike out the days to the game’s release, visit this section at all costs! So don’t hesitate - just click it

Silent Storm was included in “PC Gamer recommends” column of the May issue of the American PC Gamer edition. The heading to the column says: “Recent reviews have unearthed gaming gems. If you haven’t played ‘em, get to it”. Silent Storm, rated with 83%, has got the credit as “Fully destructible environments make this squad-based tactical strategy game a big surprise”. Nival fully agrees with such estimation - and take our word, there are more surprises to come with the Silent Storm: Sentinels.

An annual conference of Russian game developers (known by the acronym KRI) that took place in late February this year was reviewed in Moscow Times, the most popular English-speaking newspaper in Russia. The article gives the general information on the event and contains commentaries of the foreign colleagues who attended KRI. To find out why KRI reminds Patrick Kelly of GDC and what John Romero thinks of Russian gaming industry, please read the article here.

Entertainment Depot has awarded Silent Storm with Editor's Choice, confirmed by the score of 85 %. The accompanying review is more than a review, it's a love story, where the author Matt Hart reveals his gaming experience in a step by step manner, starting with "I remember the exact moment I fell in love with Silent Storm...". More of his confession can be found here.  

Fresh Silent Storm reviews were posted throughout the Net. Wargamer.com, that granted Silent Storm with Reader’s Choice Bronze Award, has come with a detailed, 5-page-long review of the game. Its author Michael Eckenfels gives a close look to all the aspects of Silent Storm and concludes that “This game is a giant in turn-based tactical combat, easily taking over the reins of previous classics and in the process, defining new boundaries”. Another review was posted at Digital Entertainment by Jake McNeil. He granted the game with the score of 8 out of 10, defining Silent Storm as follows: “It's unique and original, it's deep, it has a decent number of options, it's graphically impressive, and it boasts some wonderful detail in the most unexpected places”. Please find the full text of the reviews by the links below: Wargamer and Digital Entertainment.

Silent Storm has been granted a triple Game of the Month award from three well-known gaming portals - GameSpy, IGN and GameSpot!! "Silent Storm's brilliance comes from the amazing new strategic possibilities as the game's physics engine and fully destructible environments open up", - says GameSpy's representative. You can find detailed reviews and game awards by the following links - GameSpy, IGN and GameSpot.

“Giochi per il Mio Computer”, the best selling Italian PC Games magazine has graced Silent Storm with the “Editors Choice” award and scored the game with 8 out of 10. As you can remember, Silent Storm was also a choice of Giochi’s Finnish and Portuguese colleagues, who also granted the game with different cool awards. Grazia!

«Silent but Deadly» is a headline to the fresh Silent Storm review published on AroundCinci.com. Ben Rudick gives Silent Storm quite a close look, spending some time on each aspect of the game. He graces the game with 8.9 and says: "Congratulations to Nival for finding new life in what I thought to be an exhausted market... The game is a joy to play". Check out his review for details. 

Wargamer has announced its 2003 Readers' Choice Awards. Blitzkrieg has received the silver medal in the RTS genre: “Nival's Blitzkrieg is the best of the World War II-themed real time tactical games to date; a sub-genre in its own right”. Silent Storm has been awarded with the bronze in the TBS genre – since in North America the game was released in the 2004, it has missed the votes of American players, comments Wargamer. To see all the rewards please click here.

German fan-site Etherplanes.net dedicated to Etherlords I and Etherlords II is getting international, gradually converting its sections to English. The site features graceful design and flourishes with useful hints, game info, wallpapers and more. Check out the site clicking here. PlanesMaster welcomes you.

IGN’s Vault network has posted a Wrap-up Report on Silent Storm. Dmitry Zakharov, Project Leader for Silent Storm and Dmitry Kolpakov, our Community Manager have spoken of Silent Storm’s development process and shared its foremost issues with IGN’s readers. So, we recommend you to check out the Report, in order to learn the major decisions we made and challenges met with this game.

French gaming site Jeux-strategie.com has posted an interview with project leader of Blitzkrieg II George Ossipov. To find out what will differ the future game from the original, to learn its main features by heart and to see some fresh screenshots, please click here.

GamersHell.com has posted an interview with George Osipov, Project Leader for Blitzkrieg II. Patrick "Rhett" Moore, the Hell’s interviewer investigates into the most interesting and spicy details of the future game, backing up George’s answers with some fresh screenshots. Read the stuff.

The largest Finnish games magazine "Pelit" has awarded Silent Storm as the "Best PC Game of 2003". At the same time Portuguese game portal G4mers.com nominated Nival Interactive for the "Best Game developer of the Year" for three successful and highly acclaimed titles – Blitzkrieg, Silent Storm and Etherlords II.

French fan-site Etherlords2.FR has appeared recently. Although, some of the sections are under construction, the site already boasts own forums and a small, but growing gaming community. So, dear Lords, if you're good enough with French, don't hesitate - click here.

"With a solid combat engine and excellent graphics, Silent Storm is a lot of fun to play", says Steven 'Westlake' Carter, the author of Silent Storm review at Game-Over.net. He rates it with 87% and recommends the game "to anybody who enjoys tactical strategy games". Please find the review here.

Fresh Silent Storm review was posted at Day-Trum. The author rated the game with 4 out of 5, giving the following final verdict: “On the surface, Silent Storm may look like yet another strategy game set that's in World War II. But it manages to cover new ground and offer a distinctly different experience. Those who love strategy will enjoy this one”. You can find the full review here.

Cyber Gaming Net posted a fresh review of Silent Storm and scored it as 4 out of 5. Here is what the author, Charles Ju, says: “It sets a clear benchmark for other games due to its original concepts and its crisp gameplay… This is a definite buy for all gamers looking for something new to occupy their attention”. Click here to check out the review.

The game portal IGN.com has graced Silent Storm with a “Game of the Month” award saying that with this game the turn-based, squad-level, tactical genre is not dead, but happy and resilient! Check out the news at IGN.

 "All together, Silent Storm is a lot of fun, and is a needed, recent addition to the turn-based strategy genre", says Kyle Ackerman in his Silent Storm review at Frictionless Insight. He rates the game with 4 out of 5. To read the full review please click here.

 A new Silent Storm review was spotted at GameSpot. Its author Greg Kasavin scores Silent Storm as 8.2 of 10, mentioning, that “Silent Storm is a must-have for those who've enjoyed games like Jagged Alliance 2 in the past”. Chek out the full review here.

 “A turn-based, tactical treasure” - this is the headline to Silent Storm review at IGN. As the review goes on, Steve Butts describes all game aspects, from the destructible environment and AI that “offers a reasonably tough challenge” to animations, that “are quite good and very natural”, rating the game with 8,1 out of 10. Please find full review here.

“There’s been a flurry of games issued from the Russian development studio Nival Interactive recently with a strong emphasis on both accuracy and strategy. This is my second review of a Nival game, the first being Blitzkrieg, and I must admit I’m starting to like their style” says Giant in his Silent Storm Review at Deadalfs. “So to sum up, Silent Storm is probably the best team-based tactical shooter out there at the moment” he concludes and rates Silent Storm with 8 out of 10. Read review.

Learning something new is good at any age. A whole set of different materials on Silent Storm has been posted at High School Gamers. First of all, you can read their review, where Luke Treu rates Silent Storm with 9 out of 10 and gives general information about the game. If you desire for a closer look, you can read the interview with Dmitri Zakharov, Silent Storm Project Leader, to learn more details about Silent Storm and its add-on Silent Storm: Sentinels. Finally, if you feel that you know everything about Silent Storm you can take part in Silent Storm contest, where correct answers will give you a chance to win a free copy of Silent Storm. Got it already? Well, don’t be selfish, you can earn one for your friend!!! He got it either? Well… Does your grandma have one?

Fresh Silent Storm review is posted at Worthplaying.com. Here what its author Velvey says: “With a combination of destructible environments, a great 3d engine, role-playing elements and challenging turn-based fighting, Silent Storm comes up a winner”. The score of 8 out of 10 backs up this verdict while some details on the game told in the review explain it. Yeah, it’s worth playing with no doubt, baby!

"It is the standard against which all future turn-based tactical combat games will be measured, an instant classic that will hopefully rekindle interest in a slowly dying genre," says Cenk Adam Sensoy in his Silent Storm review at ZenGamer. He rates Silent Storm with 9 out of 10 and awards it with the ZenGamer "Must Buy" Award, nice, shiny, and yin-yang-shaped. Read the full review.

“Silent Storm is a blend of RPG, strategy and action.” – says Ranko "Arjuna" Trifkovic in his review at Action Trip. “In any case, no matter which genre you prefer, Silent Storm is a product well worth the invested money. The open-ended gameplay, comprehensive overall design, and a strong replay value are the game's defining characteristics”. He gave Silent Storm 80% and a close detailed look in his review.

 “This game is definitely worth checking out for every self-respecting turn-based strategy fan,” says Ryuken in his Silent Storm review at Fragland.net. “The graphics, the destructible environment, the physics, the sound effects, the non-linear campaign and the many strategical possibilities make it a very enjoyable game” he conludes and rates the game with 86%. Read the full preview.

Active Reviews has posted a fresh review of Silent Storm. "Any fans of turn-based combat, WW2, blowing stuff up, or all of the above need to get this game immediately" says its author, rating Silent Storm with 4,5 out of 5. You can also find quite detailed information on the game in his review.

The Weather Channel probably hasn’t said a word about North America being affected by Silent Storm that is spreading over almost the whole continent. However, Encore has. As the game got released in North America on January the 20th, Encore published the news that tells about “one of many eagerly awaited games debuting in 2004”, giving a short description of its “most unique features”.

Hurray! "Silent Storm" has been awarded with the title of the Best RPG-Strategy 2003 at the RpgDot.com. "Add more depth with some well-developed RPG elements and you have one of the best strategy games in years", - says Dhruin, the representative of the site. Find out more clicking here

RPG Codex has interviewed Dmitry Zakharov, Project Leader for Silent Storm and Silent Storm: Sentinels. The main focus of the interview is the RPG part of the original Silent Storm, including its characters and their development. If you know everything about Silent Storm, but have never really gave a thought to its RPG part – click here.

"Silent Storm tackles the world of turn-based strategy with RPG elements and does a solid job” – says Michael Lafferty in his review on Silent Storm for GameZone. He concludes that it “would be a great title for someone who has never entered this genre before, and it will provide a solid challenge to the veteran war gamer” and rates Silent Storm with 8 out of 10. Read the full review.

"...There are few games that are so spectacular," – says Cei Silverflame from Edbis.com in his preview of Silent Storm. "This is a game that should end up on the shelf of every strategy fan" – he concludes.

Although Silent Storm has not been released in the USA yet, still it has taken the second place in GameSpot.com's “10 most popular PC games”, leaving behind such titles as Call of Duty and Half-Life 2 (also not yet released). Check out the full list of GameSpot most popular games here.

In a new preview of Silent Storm from IGN.com Steve Butts explains why Silent Storm serves to continue the legacy of TBS, the genre that "has provided us with lots of chances to improve our strategic thinking". Read the preview.